Electric Mosquito Racket

The circuit consists of three main parts. The power supply (red) converts AC input into DC to charge
the battery. The battery feeds the oscillator circuit (green), which converts DC back to AC. A
transformer steps up the voltage, which is further stepped up by a diode/capacitor ladder network
(blue). The final voltage, which can range up to several hundred volts (2400 V for our racket), is
stored inside an output capacitor (C7) across the output ends going to the metal mesh. The capacitor
discharges when the circuit is shorted by a mosquito.

The mesh subassembly consists of 2 green plastic enclosure parts in the shape of the head of the
racket, 3 metal wire meshes that serve as the terminals, and 2 yellow spacers that are sandwiched
between the mesh to ensure that the mesh do not short.